Sunday, April 30, 2017

Purna Das Baul was the first to record this in his father's tune, Babu Kishan was the second to record in his tune composition.

It is Nabani Das Baul's his Grandfather Guru's song but Babu Kishan being a composer changed the tune to a trance tune.

Now there are literally hundreds of people all over India are singing this song without any idea where the song originates. Even Shah Ru Khan sang it in Bengal.

It is Nabani Das Khyapa Bauls poetry.

This Lineage is the (only) Lineage of Baul. Their is no other Lineage of Baul. This lineage is the roots of Baul, they originate in Ekkachakra Birbhum India.

The path of Radha, Kali, Tara, the path of the Feminine Divine.

This is a Nabani Das Khyappa Baul song, the below singing by his Grandson Babu Kishan in a combination of styles of his father Purna Das Baul and Grandfather Nabani Das Baul. Purna Das Baul first recorded this in the 1960's Hindustan Records. It has already been recorded and preserved by this family of Baul.

Sri Nabani Das Khyapa BaulWhat Nabani Das is saying, my translation into English with the help of Babu Kishan

The song is of the silent love which is the deepest intimacy of love expression, that takes place silently between beloved Krishna, and Radha. This profound deep love flows back and forth between Radha and Krishna. They do not want to lose eye contact.

I will keep you in my heart always and never let you go, because if the golden person of my life krishna goes I will never, ever get this person again, there is only one, there is no other for me, Krishna is my other half.

Krishna is invisible, love is invisible, everyday you have to say I love you, I love you, I love you is the mantra. Love is like that out of site out of mind, you must constantly remember your beloved.

Radha always keeps in her heart, the place of Braja.Braj is where the pastime of Krishna and Radha take place the memories of her play with her love Krishna.

Nabani Das Baul and Brajabala Dasi

Purna Das Baul and Manju Dasi

When Krishna and Radha are out of sight of each other, there is a strong feeling of speration, of deep loss, so they never want to be out of sight, they want to gaze into each others eyes every moment

RADHA/KRISHNA are one, they are constantly pulling each other, constantly focused on each other. Eye to Eye, Heart to Heart, Mind to Mind, always remembering their deep Love.

Nabani is saying, "I want to go to Braja and take the dust of Braja, spread all over my body, let it seep into my soul, I want to keep them in my heart on my body forever and never to forget, so I can feel Radha/Krishna, and their intimacy lila. I want to become Radha/Krishna in every pour of my being.

I want to be mad in the name of Radha. The path of Radha.

Baul Tantra:I have added these Vaishnava Baul practices from this lineage here because it will help one understand that there is a deeper practice of Love for the Bauls in following the path of Radha. This is very simplistic and there is much more involved.

Nayika sadhana partner sadhana - where all focus goes to the soul mate, sadhana of a partner constant connection, mystical love, strong attachment, all imagination and poetic thought is directed around the partner. Concentration and focus are needed a deep yogic focus as there are so many distractions in this world today.

The partners feel each other deeply if one is sick the other feels the connection is strong, they are joined at the heart and above the head tied together no words are needed. This is soul to soul and has very little to do with the body. These practices take a lifetime, they are not meant to be shared with just anybody. You must both be an accomplished Yogi before even grasping. It take great wisdom. Baul is not a beginners path and from what I understand there are very few if any left that can teach this appropriately. Most people just suck the unsuspecting Yoga or Tantric tourists in and it can be very dangerous.

Rati car-dande sadhana, Kama and Kamini sutra, desire, again a mystical yoga not regular unconsious sex. Bauls use the word Rati Sangam for mystical union between soul mates or Monar Manush, a women Baul is called a Baulini.

This sadhana is a higher level advanced mystical practice not for regular people. In most traditions we are taught to give up attachment but without attachments there is no deep love, this goes against the grain of what many are teaching. This again, take a lifetime to master. Just as if one is a wise old kung fu master, you do not automatically arrive here. It take great wisdom.

Love a love that is ecstatic, crazy, wild, love and a love in all the hearts bhava's (moods), then comes years and years of being a mystic, sadhana and meditation as a couple. To do the Rati practices you must be awakened and have all your energy channels open. Baul Kundalini Yoga is flowing waves of bliss (Ananda Larhari). Sri Nabani Das Khyapa Baul gave the name Ananda Lahari to the Baul Mystic drum called the Gugubi or Khamak.

(Udasi Bauls do not even need a partners they can easily reach to that level through their mystical sadhana of creating all inside their factory including their ideal women).

Vaishanava Baul brings the male and female into one body. Radha, and Krishna live in their hearts, they view Radha as superior because she has the power to pull Krishna. You will not a Baul never shaves their heads, the reason for this is Krishna has hair, and remember half of them is feminine so they like to wear ear rings also.. They want to emulate Radha too. This is their Lila.

I only want to be in a deep bhava crazy for Radha God intoxicated for Radha, mad in Radha's name in oneness with Radha..and Krishna

When Kirhsna smiles all the birds fly, deers play, flowers sing, everything becomes alive in Beauty, Colors become brighter.. It is Radha who makes Krishna smile.

Krishna was ugly so black, but his smile made him beautiful, Radha made Krishna smile, she made him beautiful, all the gopis became alive, everybody woke up, everything was God intoxicated, alive, happy, vivid, bright, awake, ecstatic. This is exactly how a Baul should make you feel. A Baul activates Shakti. Baul is the path of Radha.

When Radha and Krishna have eye contact, "which they do not do in Indian culture with anybody, you only have eye contact with your beloved, only your beloved can look into your soul."

They would feel I want to be in eye contact, and I will gaze and go inside feel love..soul mate love. The love is in the eyes, the gaze of deep soul love.

How many millions of years I have been traveling one life, to one, to just get this human body so I can feel Radha/Krishna together in my soul. If I sing beautiful Krishna, the king of the flute will be kind to me, and come to me and then I will never let go Radha is saying. Krishna is Peace, Krishna say Radha is peace, they are soul mates, there is a constant flow back and forth. You are great, no you are greater, you are greater, no you are the greatest, no you are the greatest, no you are the super duper greatest back and forth, higher and higher.

Babu Kishan thinks western culture will not understand the depth. I will try to get more later and try to do a better interpretation, but it is really hard, because these songs are just seeds of higher philosophy.

Babu Kishan recorded this song in Woodstock New York at the Bearsville Studio of Albert B Grossman's studio where Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix the same studio his father recorded here back in 1967, 50 years ago at Woodstock.

Babu recorded in 2004 with Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Al Aronowitz, Patty Smith, and Robert Thurman, Dave Mathews present they danced, and danced while Babu was recording.

Thanks to his long time friend Sally Grossman, Dave Mathews, said he had never heard anything like it, Babu did not have a clue who Dave Mathew was? Babu said it was lots of fun to make them dance, as they all really enjoyed.

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Babu Kishan and Trishula Das,Amar Monar Manush

Very strange to have to copy right any of this but others are taking these stories and making them their own. It is a joke. Not only the stories but the songs.

Saturday, April 29, 2017

I was having a conversation with BabuKishan this morning about this description of Bauls that says,

"Many of them ( Bauls) practice a type of psycho-physical manipulation or tantric yoga which emphasizes control of sexual union, the purpose of which is to enable the couple to achieve a break with phenomenal existence, to escape the endless cycle of death and regeneration, and to achieve a state of eternal stability or samadhi. This practice involves the retention of semen during intercourse and the ingestion of bodily secretions..."

But this is not the focus of what Baul is? A rich tradition with a huge body of wisdom that has been around for thousands of years and this is what has become the focus of what Baul is? Poets, Philosophers, Sanskritist, Oral tradition, Guru's Baul were the teachers. To be a Baul is to be the highest. A Baul is a Siddha a Parmahamsa. Reductionism, watering down, reducing a genius tradition to dust. Even Ramakrishna found Baul to be the highest, he wanted to be born a Baul in his next life.

Kali ma the Great Goddess of Bengal and the Bauls of Bengal

There is nothing wrong with this description of Sacred Sexuality, however, you will see this over and over like a broken record as if this is the only focus, of what Baul is, it is not. People from all over the world and India flock to Shantiniketan searching for this freedom and wanting to meet Bauls. This can prove to be dangerous for many unsuspecting innocents. Listen Baul is extinct do not waste your time, many fakes are taking advantage.

Baul Tantric practices:

I am not writing this pertaining to any other lineage because there is no other lineage, why believe me because this is the only lineage who brought Baul to the world more than 70 years ago.

So if you are reading this and thinking of learning new and you follow a new Baul singer they have no connection to these stories of this lineage.

For some strange reason the tourist Bauls are following our path, they follow what we do, go where we go, sing our songs call themselves,

"Baul Masters", they are NOT nor do they sing Baul correctly. Some may be really charming and good people but that still does not make them a Baul.

This lineage does not belong to them to outsiders or new Baul singers, this lineage is not drama. The new Baul singers are about acting, all theatre and cinema over inflating and duping people.

Please do not copy, I have seen my writings copied and pasted in other articles. If I say Lineage then they say Lineage, if I say this or that then they say that or even worse make up stories.

Nayika sadhana partner sadhana - where all focus goes to the soul mate, sadhana of a partner constant connection, mystical love, strong attachment, all imagination and poetic thought is directed around the partner. Concentration and focus are needed a deep yogic focus as there are so many distractions in this world today.

The partners feel each other deeply if one is sick the other feels the connection is strong, they are joined at the heart and above the head tied together no words are needed. This is soul to soul and has very little to do with the body. These practices take a lifetime, they are not meant to be shared with just anybody. You must both be an accomplished Yogi before even grasping. It take great wisdom. Baul is not a beginners path and from what I understand there are very few if any left that can teach this appropriately. Most people just suck the unsuspecting Yoga or Tantric tourists in and it can be very dangerous.

Rati car-dande sadhana, Kama and Kamini sutra, desire, again a mystical yoga not regular unconsious sex. Bauls use the word Rati Sangam for mystical union between soul mates or Monar Manush, a women Baul is called a Baulini.

This sadhana is a higher level advanced mystical practice not for regular people. In most traditions we are taught to give up attachment but without attachments there is no deep love, this goes against the grain of what many are teaching. This again, take a lifetime to master. Just as if one is a wise old kung fu master, you do not automatically arrive here. It take great wisdom.

Love a love that is ecstatic, crazy, wild, love and a love in all the hearts bhava's (moods), then comes years and years of being a mystic, sadhana and meditation as a couple. To do the Rati practices you must be awakened and have all your energy channels open. Baul Kundalini Yoga is flowing waves of bliss (ananda larhari).

Udasi Bauls do not even need a partners they can easily reach to that level through their mystical sadhana of creating all inside their factory including their ideal women.

There are many false things written about the Bauls, it is really difficult to get to the truth or to know who is a real Baul. If sex is all writers seem to write about Baul then Bauls will be extinct faster than thought, Baul is a huge tradition, a Baul should be lightening and a genius in all matters. There are new Baul singers using Baul and this lineage duping people into thinking either they are Bauls or changing this beautiful ancient Lineage of Vaishnava Baul that originates in Ekkachakra Birbhum Bengal.

There is no other Lineage of Baul, (period) and that should be your first clue to fake. Nobody ever used Lineage in regards to Baul until I started to write and develop this blog called Lineage Paul in 2009. Babu wrote 3 Books on Baul in the 1980's he wrote about his Lineage and his family who are pioneering Paul men and women.

Ask Babu questions he will tell you who is who? It is better to ask than waste your time.

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Tara Ma the Tantric Goddess from Tarapith in Birbhum, Babu Kishan was initiated into Tara Sadhana from birth.

(Brajabala Dasi) Babukishan's beloved Grandmother raised him until he was 8. When Nabani Das Khyapa Baul his Guru and Grandfather passed away in 1969, Brajabala sent him to Calcutta to be with his birth father and mother Purna Das Baul and Manju Dasi. His mother and father sent him to the Ramakrishna Mission as if he were an orphan. He lived it, he has many incredible stories. In retrospect in Babu Kishan's mind he only knew Nabani Das Khyapa Baul as his father.

Brajabala knew all the stories as she spoke oral Sanskrit and was also, from Ekkachakra she passed on much of the lineage to Babu from birth until she passed when Babu was about 40 years of age. Brajabala was a Guru to most Women Bauls.

Brajabala Dasi was very much a guru to Babu Kishan too, as was Nabani and Purna Das Baul. Babu had many Guru's including Sitaram Das Omkarnath, Anandamayi Ma, and all the Swami's at the Ramakrishna Mission. There are many more to include right now. Even he had a Indian Cinema Music Guru, the Legendary RD Burman for at least 14 years.

Baul is a beautiful ecstatic mystical bhakti lineage and most of the PHD holders took their research from this lineage in which they have been given only a very limited point of veiw. This is an oral tradition it is almost impossible for an outsider to try to teach what Baul is because, it is more indepth than what appears to the eye? Baul is a complete path.

Baul can only be taught by a lineage Baul. It takes years and years if not a lifetime to learn Baul philosophy, Baul songs, Baul poetry, it is not simple or easy. There is one new Paul women singer that says it only takes women 3 years to learn Baul, that is not the truth, if Brajabala Das, Radharani Dasi or Manju Dasi were alive they would shut down that kind of talk.

Just as real Yoga is not simple or easy. The Tantra Bauls practice has nothing to do with the Neo Tantra of the West. Baul is a mystical shamanic tantric sadhana not sexo magic. Baul is an internal sadhana. It is about learning what is inside, a sort of Daoist qigong, energetic mystical tradition, the path of Radha where Radha and Krishna reside in the heart of the beloved. I hear people focus on the sex part over and over, the four moon practice, deha sadhana, is not the focus of what a Baul is.

This one and only Lineage of Bauls is called 'The Rasa Lila Mystics' because they capture the (Rasa) or juice and hold it inside of themselves, they distill or grind this juice into Love, they keep what works and grind and polish it into a beautiful play.

Nabani Das Khyapa Baulthe last of the great Tantric Bauls of Bengal

Bauls are poets, philosophers, singers, dancers, they are not 'afflicted by the wind,' they are wind catchers, they practice what they call 'vayu dharma' or pranayama. The are only mad wild crazy for the divine, they worship Radha and Krishna in their heart, in their soul. A message from Babu Kishan below!

​Today 2017 people love Baul song due to my family and our dedicated lifetime work of pioneering Baul around the world for over 70 years before there was Facebook, can you even imagine how difficult it was.

Before my family nobody knew who and what Baul was, we are the only lineage of Baul going back thousands of years. We have always been around and in the villages of Bengal as Guru's and teachers the spiritual newspaper before the newspaper. The original Das and Dasi Hare Krishna singers and dancer. My Grandfather and Guru Nabani Das Khyappa Baul was part of the Freedom Movement in India singing before Nehru gave his speeches as Baul has always been known as the biggest attention intoxicating through the honey of their song.

​Nabani Das Khyapa Baul sang for Nehru before all his talk all over India. Then my parents (Purna Das Baul and Manju Dasi) and myself (Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babu Kishan) did the same for Indira Gandhi and her son's Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi. We sang on thousands of stages all around India hundreds of times. I have always said we sang on the most prestigeous stages around the world. Now I laugh because I see a new Baul singer saying the same, oh please stop.

My parents and the women in my lineage were legendary, they are the first and we are the only Lineage of Baul. Nobody in Baul every said Lineage except me and now there are others making up stories that are not true.

"So please go in a smooth flow like a trance of river and sing for Moner Manush, just saying because I am watching someone's youtube who is singing my Grandfather poetry but naming a different poet? Don't be fake, we know you are, don't make people stupid or saying and setting up for preservation. Baul is already preserved my dear, that is why you are singing the songs from my Lineage.

Pranab Mukerjee (The President of India) a relative and great friend of this Lineage, ask him who Purna Das Paul and Nabani Das Paul are? If fact ask him who Babu Kishan is? These people were not mad, Pranab's father loved Nabani Das Khyapa Baul.Even though people are liking but they mostly do not have any training in Baul music or musical ability, of course they screwing the wonderful lineage of Baul!

We didn’t have internet back then and it was so difficult to communicate and travel around the world. The hard time we had a hard time we had was to make was to make a road very easier for new comers!!

From what I hear they (the new Baul singers) are not Baul Masters and need voice lessons, beyond voice lessons, development of voice quality, you cannot even sing in a cord or track! Just singing Sakhi re…… then what, or trying be more tourist attractions spinning hair around and theatrical Bauls then Sadhana? They need more and more practise, all my life I composed music for World's top musicians and recorded singer like Lata Mangaskar and Asha Bhosle and many other. You can call me egotistical but it is my lineage I am an award winning music composer. I know tone and pitch and you are way, way out of tune.

Be a Baul do great work, help people and inspire people but don’t make up 4 generations and sing the songs from my lineage giving other poets names it has already been recorded and documented before you were born. If someone gave you miss information that is not my problem it is yours.

Please do the practise and don't makeup stories and drama, just be true Baul!!

Love u all, my blessing with all my brothers and sisters, don't try to be Nabani Das Khyapa Baul or Baul Samrat Purna Das just salute them have a great respect for them they are the one who gave you a chance to be Baul!!

Joy Guru!! Don't even try to be them, you cannot even dream!! You don't even know how was hard to making this Baul from a village to International platform!! Not easy, and of course only are one which is the last oldest BaulLineage in Bengal and World!!

Don't make stories, first learn how to sing and do Sadhna of Baul!! Just keep focus on what you are doing! Who can sing like Purna Das Baul, Manju Dasi, Radharani Dasi, Brajabala Dasi or any of my lineage? We are the only lineage, I can tell you who everybody is and where they came from except for the new Bauls who are young and now I am seeing these bizarre stories.The end Babu Kishan !

Sri Nityananda of Ekkachaka Bengal India is part of this lineage of Vaishnava Baul, lineage of the Baul Avadhuta. This Lineage of Paul is the only lineage of Baul there is no other. Nityananda of Ekkachakra is where they come from.

The lineage Bauls from Birbhum are the origins of Vaishnavism in Bengal India. They are the original Hare Krishna singers and dancers of Bengal India thousands of years before this new Vaishnava movement began.

Baul is about 'Love and Devotion' Bhakti Yoga and deep sadhana, the real Bauls spoke Sanskrit as this is the way the oral traditions are transmitted, they sing their songs in Bengali so the villagers can understand, because the villages did not necessarily speak sanskrit.

The Vaishnava Bauls appear very simple but in actual fact they were way more intelligent than any western British educated scholars, their memories were astronomical as they had recorded in their minds all the stories of yoga, upanishads, stories of Krishna and Radha.

Baul Saint, and Baul Guru Sri Nabani Das Baul, he is the Baul who inspired Rabindranath Tagore and initiated Tagore into Baul giving Tagore the name Ravi (Robi) Baul. They have a huge history and that story is for another time

Sri Nityananda also called Nitai was a Baul, an exalted Avadhuta, history was rewritten by modern day writers who were mostly orthodox or scholars who were not from inside the tradition. The stories of this lineage are within the songs of the lineage this is what an oral living lineage is, it is not a book translated lineage. Book translations are usually distorted because most writers have a personal opinion or are on a mission for something, be it devotee's, preaching, temples or money from the sale of the books?

We are writing books to preserve all that has already been preserved by this lineage. We need to set the record straight but it is not an easy task and will perhaps take years. It should be noted that Baul does not need to be preserved by outsiders who are "now fundraising" in the name of Baul.

Baul is already preserved all it only needs translating into English. The songs have already been recorded going back into the 1950’s. I have no idea why new Bauls are now fundraising to preserve Bauls, oh my goodness what is going on.

Our personal mission is to translate as much as we can into English of our tradition and keep it as close to the truth of what a Baul is. This can only be done by someone actually in the tradition not by a new comer who has already taken Nabani Das Khyappa Bauls songs and attached other poets to Nabani's poetry. It is very strange to an owner of the tradition to have a new Baul singer making up stories, making up lineages.

The Bauls message is for all people and is especially necessary to today's world but that does not mean the message should be watered down or distorted.

Of course Baul also changes to adapt to the world but it is in desperate need of being preserved accurately.

Anytime you hear someone associate Baul with neo tantric

sex, you can be guaranteed this person or group does not have a clue what Baul is about. Or fundraising on behalf of Baul I warn you ahead of time they are not of any lineage. Baul has nothing to do with Bangladesh, I can qualify everything coming out of the fundraising team from Bangladesh and any of the new Baul tourist attractions. Fundraise for your own cause not for the cause of Baul, making people stupid.

Brajabala Dasi and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul

Many call Baul Traditional Folk songs because the Bauls did not speak english and this was a category that foreigners could understand and people outside of Bengal.

Please understand that Baul songs are not folk songs, their songs are spiritual songs and this particalar lineage is a lineage of Baul kirtan, many of their Baul kirtan's have been taken and used by others saying they are songs of their made up lineage but that is not so and we are archiving all the songs that belong to the Bauls, this should at least be credited to them.

Writers are focused on sex as sex sells easily and attracts curious people, there is a freedom this implies and it looks attractive to become a Baul, tantric sex all day, smoking ganja all day, singing, dancing and begging for money, no sadhana? This is definitely not Baul this is another huge distortion making the Lineage Bauls extinct. Also, many have become a tourist attraction with long dread locks, this is not Baul.

Bauls are free birds in that they are seeking ecstatic union (yoga) with their beloved Radha/Krishna, Shiva/Kali. This takes place through their lineage songs which are seeds of higher philosophy, this is where their union comes from, you can feel it, you can hear it and if you do not you are not listening to a Baul.

The body has the God's and Goddess's in the altar of the heart. The body is the temple of the soul, this is the tantra, this is the technique, this is their samadhi, this is their God/dess intoxication comes from, they know the technique. Baul is about high level philosophy it is not about the mundane. The lineage Bauls I am talking about and there is only one lineage of Bauls.

Baul songs are not folk songs, they are seed songs of higher philosophy, one must know the discourses that go along with the song. Babu listens to what Bauls are singing they are either singing his family lineage songs or are singing folk songs, some sing his lineage songs but shorten them thus destroying the meaning.

Babu has also heard Bauls singing Bollywood songs that have nothing to do with Baul, in and of itself there is nothing wrong with this but to call the songs Bauls songs is wrong? You may ask, well Babu Kishan being a Baul has many Bollywood songs. The answer is yes, and he is a lineage Baul who is the only Baul since the 1970's who has composed music for Bollywood. He is a Baul and a rare musical genius composer who composed and recorded all his fathers (Purna Das Baul's ) Baul music. Today all Bauls sing the songs Babu has recorded. What would they have to sing if not for Babu Kishan because they all copy. If he goes to a part of the world, they follow. They also, copy and paste what I write. If I say Lineage, they say Lineage. It is just too much. Babu has been preserving HIS lineage since the 1970's it is done. Now everybody is preserving Baul. The famous Baul women are from this lineage and have had Guru's from this lineage. There is no other (period). All will be qualified very shortly.

A real Baul usually will not tell you anything, therefore, this is a good opportunity for the new Bauls to dress like Bauls and when a scholar or a reporter comes to Bengal they usually have interviewed a new Baul on the, "philosophy of Baul" or the reporter and scholars usually focus on one aspect.

My question who owns the truth about the Bauls 'a scholar' or a New Baul singer who has created a tourist attraction and a fake lineage, OR 'a lineage Baul from within the lineage', who is the authority?

'Wikipedia or a lineage Baul?' or 'PhD's' or a tourist attraction making up a lineage?'

Should the authority on Baul be the lineage, or should it be the scholars, the problem is Baul is almost extinct there are only a handful of lineage Bauls left. I can tell you this family is the only family of Bauls who brought Baul to the world. Others just copy and follow, go where they go, do what they do.

It is a huge task to try to preserve this lineage, so in the meantime this leaves the door open for all sorts of nonsense.

These neo Bauls like the neo Tantrics and neo Yogi's of the east and west only tell the person a very limited view of Baul from copy and paste, they repeat the same thing over and over, copy, paste, copy, paste, singing only folk songs saying they are Baul songs.

The roots of Baul are in Sanatan Dharma the Bhagavad Gita, Radha and Krishna, the roots of Baul are not in Buddhism or Islam. They accepted Buddhist and Islam Sufi into their fold, because Bauls are the biggest peacekeeper. That does not mean they became them.

"Lineage Bauls are the origins of Vaishnavism in Ekkachakra Birbhum Bengal, they are the original Rasa Lila Mystics.

They are an oral (Sanskrit) tradition as all Indian Traditions were, they are not a book tradition of modern interpretations and personal opinion. What the Lineage Bauls know has been passed down through Sanskrit, many new age Vaishnava reformers have distorted the truth about Vaishnavism in Bengal and created cults which have done more harm to the Bauls."

It is surprising to Babu that even people he has known write the wrong stories about Bauls. Even more surprising the number of people he has taken to Bengal, talked about his lineage who have either made films or wrote books and they do not even thank him, cut him out completely and thank the western scholars.

There is one professor from the USA who had him sign papers to get university grants for her to study Bauls only to cut him out completely, everybody wants funding and what a great thing to do get the funding through a lineage Baul then interview Neo Bauls who have a very limited knowledge of the Bauls? This is very disrespectful and is creating such a distortion in the history of what Baul really is. There are very few real Bauls left, they are almost extinct. I mean really must you keep using the Bauls of India.

The One and Only Legendary Bauls Purna Das Paul and Manju Dasi who traveled the world for 70 years. They are the pioneers of Baul and Baulini. They are the first and only.

Tantra is shakti sadhana, tantra is the science of light, the science of life. Tantra is technique, on how everything is put together. Tantra Mantra Yantra, formula, for instance Babu is an expert of the Tantra of Indian.

Music and sound the technique using a scientific formula to bring the Dieties to life through sound. Same with the Bauls their songs are their sadhana, their tantra is through their songs this is why so many people are mesmerized with the Bauls because of the thousands of years of sadhana or Lineage of having the Lineage passed on from one generation to the next through Sanskrit.

How Baul got stuck on sex is perplexing? They do have mystical sadhana's but people have made it so dirty with all the fake Bauls taking advantage.

Babu is also a master the smashan grounds, tantra, mantra, yantra, as he was born into this sadhana from his grandfather (not all Bauls are this kind of Tantric, only the avadhuta's are.) Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was initiated by Bhama Khepa among others at Tarapith. He traveled all over India, Nepal and Tibet.

When talking Tantra in the west it is always about sex, why, because sex sells.

Sex is not Tantra and selling it as such is misguided, call it sacred sex. It is really disrespectful to the Indian people when Tantra is only referred to a sexual sadhana's, Tantra is technique.

Tantra is a Sanskrit word, it originates in India, so Tantra is Indian. If one wants to be a Tantric learn jyotish, sanskrit, ayurveda, mantra..Shakti Sadhana. If one wants to learn sex sacred sexuality, do not call it Baul or tantra.

Hard work and sadhana does not attract people, 12 years of sadhana with a Guru does not attract anyone. And if anyone tells you for women only 3 years, this is not true, it takes lifetimes. Brajabala Dasi, Radharani Dasi were Sanskrit scholars it comes from the soul and soil of Birbhum. They never would do or behave stealing the poetry of Nabani and this lineage making up stories and lineages that are not true. This is not the way of Baul women, being a tourist attraction show.

There are many Bauls smoking ganja who are addicted to it, however, their power and knowledge are gone because the ganja is smoking them.

There was a time when ganja was a sacred herb it was used to cure all sort of ailments and the real authentic avadhuta bauls in deep sadhana smoked ganja, however, the ganja did not smoke them. Ganja was used for sadhana, one never depended on it.

Yes sacred sexuality is part of certain Baul practices but this is only a drop of what is real Baul, just as asana and meditation are part of Baul. A Baul does not reject anything, they embrace all knowledge yoga ect. This practice as described as being Baul at the beginning of this article is meant to be between only sadhaka and sadhika, it is only meant to be between husband and wife never shared with others, it is private in a committed relationship of soul mates and really is not central theme of what Baul is?

Babu's grandfather the legendary Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul used to generate so much spiritual heat he used to meditate under water on the bottom of a pond. He was rare. As Babu say's don't try to be Nabani Das Baul or Purna Das Baul.

Fakir, aul, sai, derbesh, is sufi it is not Baul.

In the past many different groups were wandering around Bengal and they were lumped together under 'Baul', they were not Baul, however, the British had a huge disdain for all wandering people, they were treated badly and they all were called Baul, at the time even the British educated Bengali's did not understand, they were too busy trying to please the British and gain some sort of respectful life.

Fakir, Sai, Aula, Dervesh and Shah are not Baul.​Bauls have been described as mad, Sai, Shah, Fakir, Dervish, Aula, Muslim, afflicted by the wind, illiterate, beggars and folk singers, yet they are none of the above. First of all Bauls were never beggars for anything but God/dess. A Baul would received Dakshina from the villagers for their wisdom and teachings. Bauls were farmers too. Today many have other jobs and professions as the world has changed, so too does their dress, Baul is an inner thing, it has nothing to do with your costume or having a tourist attraction hair. It is inner man, inner not an outer show.

Baul is like modern Yoga being described as Asana, gymnastics ect.. The Body is not the sole organ of all experience and knowledge Parampara is, the Guru is.

The Guru to the Baul is the greatest but let me tell the Guru must be a Baul Guru and this is very difficult to get because the ones that are calling themselves Baul Guru are NOT. This can be proven and we see and know what is going on. We can give the whole history on most of the Bauls that are calling themselves Baul.

Purna Das Paul, Indira Gandhi, Manju Dasi all great friends.

Baul is a 'Guru Parampara Tradition.' The oral tradition and Guru are the means to knowledge, the oral tradition has been transmitted for thousands of years through Sanskrit, the Bhagavad Gita all knowledge of Yoga, Bhakti Yoga is the sole organ of experience.

Babukishan, say's, "why come to Baul, go to sex education, why even come to Baul at all find your own lineage in your own family not in mine, stope destroying my tradition as if you are a tourist attraction. Do not destroy Baul by the misconceptions, mostly all Phd on Baul are completely wrong or they only have an aspect and they beat that aspect to death. "

Baul is inner connecting to the divine in a ecstatic mystic way, it is not about outer, grab a partner try some Psycho physical manipulation, this is such a gross misconception and it is really boring and a huge insult to the authentic Bauls. To a Baul the Guru is the path, the Guru passes on all knowledge through the oral living lineage that is thousands of years old.

You can feel the universe inside of you that is Baul, as above so below. The original authentic Baul will never tell you their sadhana, only paramapara. Bauls were the newspaper before the newspaper, singing Hare Krishna every morning to the villagers as a wake up call.

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40 years traveling worldwide promoting his ancient and only Lineage an Oral Living Lineage.

Master of Indian Classical, Folk, Baul & Bollywood Music

This lineage and family are the only Bauls who have associated with, when you read Bauls associated with; Bauls did not only Babukishan and family did.

Bauls in general as posted on the internet did not, many Bauls are using this lineage. Allen Ginsberg made a comment about Lalon Shah and they associate Ginsberg with Lalon, no no no Allen Ginsberg is only associated with Babu Kishan, who was a close friend visiting him every year for decades. Why? because Allen always said Nabani Das Baul who he met was his Guru and was consistent in that until his death.

Bob Dylan too was a friend of Babu Kishan's and you will see his father and uncle on the cover of John Westley Harding, Babu Kishan is listed on Bob Dylan's web site of the Who is Who. He also, performed all over the USA with Bob Dylan's 1986 East, West Tour.

I could go on and on. I don't know why people do this, preserving Baul and writing about Baul as if there are Bauls in Bangladesh. Baul is not and never was a place of Baul. This is a new phenomenon to raise money. Writing books on Baul all the while following this lineage but making up stories and new Baul lineages to raise money and preserve Baul. Baul is already preserved. Lalon Fakir was a great poet he was never a Baul, I will qualify this. Bhaba Pagala was not he Baul he used to hang out with Babu's family, he used to babysit Babu and his brothers. He never ever said he was a Baul. He loved Baul he was not a Baul. My next article will go one by one telling who is who?

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ancestor and lineage of Sri Nityananda of Ekkchaka West Bengal, and thousands of generations before.

This is the oldest living lineage of Baul on earth. Babukishan is the only Baul living in North America now residing between Mumbai and Vancouver Canada.

BA Indian Philosophy, Kolkata UniversityMA Indian Music, Kolkata University

"Master of Baul, Indian Classical, Indian Folk, Baul Fusion, World music and Indian Cinema Music"

Babu Kishan Das born 1962 in Suri, Birbhum, West Bengal, India into the legendary Nabani Das Baul's family and the Baul lineage of Sri Nityananda of Ekkchakra West Bengal in the 1500's, Sri Nityananda was a Baul this is recorded in the oral lineage and written lineage. This is the Baul lineage who introduced Baul to the world starting back in the1940's & 1950's, they are the pioneering family, if not for them no one would even know who the Bauls are? This lineage is the root of the Baul tradition. They opened the door for all future Bauls to carry on the Baul tradition around the world. This lineage and family has been performing on the biggest of world stages, festivals, lecturing at Universities, around the world for more than 60 years.

Babukishan is a Lineage Baul, music composer, music director from India, he was born into a family of music, poetry and Indian Philosophy, he has composed over 150 musical scores, and produced some 44 albums, He has composed and recorded most of his father's music.

In 2007 Babukishan was awarded a Lifetime Achievment award for his contribution to Indian Cinema.

Vaishnava Baul is an oral tradition, the stories are recorded in the songs. Babu is the eldest son of Purna Das Baul and the late Manju Dasi. Manju Dasi is the first Women Baul to travel the world starting back in the 1960's until the mid 2000's she traveled every corner of the globe and performed on every stage, her story is truly what legends are made of. Manju was an extremely talented musician, an HMV/EMI and Polydor artist. Manju was the first Female Baul (Baulini) and perhaps the only to date to be a"A class female Baul singer in India" she was the first Baul to introduce Harmonium to Baul, before her the Bauls did not use the harmonium. Manju was the first Baul to introduce official Lalon Fakir songs to Radio, TV, recordings and film.

Babukishan was traditionally trained in the oral tradition of his Baul lineage in Sanskrit, he learned this from his grandfather and others in his Baul family, learning by hearing and remembering, "this is the way it was done before books, it is called having the lineage passed to you orally, as in storytelling." As a inborn mystic and musician he started composing music, and writing poetry before he went to grade school.

Babu spent 12 years in the Ramakrishna Order as a Vedic Monk, where he learned book knowledge to go with his oral teachings. Babu says, "he does not trust books, they are fine but they leave out important information and are mostly personal opinion depending on the translators agenda."

It is a paradox, books are good, however, all of India's knowledge was an oral tradition where people dedicated their lives to keep, preserve, pass on and hold the spiritual knowledge of India within family lineages. Guru is the way but today there are very few qualified Guru's, or qualified disciples.

How can one trust a Guru there are so many taking advantage, Guru's are big business, making more money than any Bollywood star. He has seen his share of failed Bollywood actors ect.. turn to the Guru business. Commitment between Guru and disciple is endless and strong Unless one has a Guru books only give a small sample of the story, there are layers upon layers that are passed down Guru to Disciple.

The problem in finding a Guru is, you will be tested, the question should be, "Am I a disciple?" to be a disciple is a huge commitment. Most of us just want to have fun, feel good, and be God/intoxicated, unfortuatly the Guru/Disciple is not fun, or easy and is not a feel good experience all the time because you will be shown all those place that we avoid? Who wants to sit and do the work, the sadhana that is involved, most of us would just rather not.

Babukishan's Baul Guru's are "Baul Saint" Sri Nabani Das Kyappa Baul, Brajabala Dasi, Purna Das Baul, his aunt Radharani Dasi and many others from this lineage. Some of the other saints and guru's he had personal relationships and his favorites were Ananadamayi Ma, Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath and many other unknown to the western world.

He has associate with many stories of others, like Balakbramhachari, Maha AnandaMaharaj, Sathya Sai Baba, Dhirndra Bramhacharya, Osho, Sant Nirankari, The Shankaracharya's of India, including many unknown in the West ...Baba's and Ma's because Babu started traveling India and being exposed to all first through his grandfather a wandering Avadhuta Baul Saint and then through his famous father Purna Das Baul traveling the world many times from age 10 on ward now for 40 years as a Cultural Representative of India.

His musical repertoire is like the who is who of Indian music from lineage teachers of Indian music, and the best coming out of Bengal to the best of Indian Cinema or (Bollywood.)

BabuKishan is probably one of the very few living authentic authorities alive today regarding the Bauls. He is starting to speak now because he is seeing a prolific amount of mis-information on Baul by the many scholars, PhDs, new Bauls singers and writers who are lacking information in what the authentic Baul lineage is really about. Each day he see's another story or more speculation on who the Bauls are, it is almost becoming a joke.

Nabani Das Baul his grandfather named Babukishan, "Krishnendu" he kept Babu the moment he was born, with massage and Ayurveda he was able to straighten tiny Krishnendu's crooked limbs. Krishnendu was his Baby Krishna and he took his Krishna everywhere with him, as he wandered India. Babu spent the first 8 years of his life in the highest of spiritual energies and his grandfather left him a huge spark of himself when he passed away.

Baul really started to change over the past 30 years with the influx of foreigners, hippies, Bangladesh refugee's into Shantiniketan. Many refugee's and others who saw being a Baul as a way to earn a living started to turn Baul into begging and a great way to make a living without doing sadhana, dress the part, sing a folk song, being a Baul became a great way to survive. Baul's were offered Dakshina as Guru's and spiritual messengers. Today they deserve to be paid appropriately for the grace and musical skill they bring, Bauls should not be used or asked to perform for free when the world has changed, so should how we treat the Bauls change.

It also is the fault of his own lineage but you can not blame them as Bauls have always been used and marginalized. Bauls do not share openly, and times have changed, the correct information on lineage Baul needs to be passed on as accurately as possible or it will be gone forever, and Baul will just be a tourist attraction. Being from North America it reminds me of the rich culture of the North American idigenous people and how their shamanic traditions, are also suffering the same fate.

Baul is a "Guru" based tradition, oral living lineage tradition, the lineages were passed down in familes this is common knowledge in India. This is how Baul was passed from father to son, mother to daughter, however, Bauls always included all and it was not uncommon for a Baul to take someone into their family.

There is a huge misunderstanding on what Baul is because there were in the past many people wandering through Bengal when the first writers started to speculate about the nature of Baul. They lumped all these wandering souls together under one umbrella calling them all Bauls but in fact very few of them were actually Bauls. Fakir, Sai, Aula, Dervish, Shah actually are not Baul. Only a Lineage Baul knows exactly what a Baul is, not a scholar or a new Baul singer, the account of Baul history comes from "inside" the tradition not from "outside" the tradition or from speculation. Speculation about the Bauls has gone on from the beginning of time and it continues today, all one outside the tradition can do it but speculate. Scholars from outside the tradtion can only speculate.

Baul songs are not folk songs, they are spiritual sadhana's and one must complete difficult sadhana's before one can call oneself a Baul. There is a misconception that singing folk songs on a train or on a street is Baul.. Baul is a difficult sadhana learned under a Guru for years and years or perhaps a whole lifetime. There is no I am initiated ... the initiation into Baul goes on for a lifetime.

Baul is about the SOUL, pure LOVE, Monar Manush as in ecstatic union with the divine in the highest of loves, the love between Krishna and Radha as soul mates. Bauls do not worship the body for mundane purposes. The body is worshiped as the temple for the divine, the soul is situated in the human heart, Radha and Krishna live in the "altar of the heart with the soul in the human body."

Vaishnava Bauls are the original Das and Dasi, Gosai, (Goswami) lineage in West Bengal India. They have been singing the Hare Krishna Mahamantra for thousands of years wandering from village to village, as the morning wake up call to the people of the villages, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna... Bauls believe in Monar Manush in soul mates. Krishna's flute is always calling Radhe ..Radhe..Radhe and because of Radha's connection to Krishna and their love for each other Radha and Krishna are the original soul mates. Bauls know all the philosophical arguments, they are Indian philosophers, they just have a rare take on all the pedantic othodox bantering.

Love and Devotion, Traditional Bhakti Yoga, Kirtan, ecstatic song and dance. Bauls are natural, spontaneous Bhakti Yogi's, Poets and Philosophers. The soul is not in the temple the soul is in the human body residing in the heart. Bauls do not believe in caste, creed, they believe in the Soul. Ask your soul?? the body will lie, the mind will lie but the soul will tell you the truth.

Most of the people writing about Babu's lineage either cut and paste from internet or are talking to the wrong Bauls and new Bauls singers who are not trying to preserve the lineage they just want to travel, or create something new. At this point The Bauls of Bengal are almost extinct and it is time to preserve what is real it is not a time to make it up. Perhaps the New Bauls are saying they want to preserve Baul however, how can you preserve something you do not own. A gift is given by the owner of the gift, as in Sampradaya, or lineage. If the gift has not been given by a lineage Baul how can something that you do not own or have be given to other.

That respect also should also include who wrote the songs that Bauls are singing? Most do not even know where the songs came from, who wrote the songs.. they do not even know the history of Baul.That love and respect include acknowledging the Baul Guru's of the past as in Nabani Das Khyappa Baul and those who walked before him. One by one we will be writing about each and every Baul back to Sri Nityananada and beyond.

Most teachers passing on Baul are only passing on the limited information that they have picked up here and there. I am a researcher and I ask Babu who is this, who is that, this Baul is saying this person is their Guru, who is that, and he knows the whole history of who everybody is, where they came from, how they got involved in Baul, he knows what songs they are singing, who wrote the song, and more importantly whether it is a folk song, a Baul song and sometimes they are even singing Bollywood songs?

These neo Bauls today are just making a mess of what Baul is, they lack sadhana and the god intoxication the energy that come from doing Baul Sadhana. Baul is not about singing folk songs it is sadhana, years and years of sadhana. Babu has been preserving his lineage for 40 years and has seen it all. The most recent wave is that Baul is only about sufi, or that Baul orginates in Bangladesh and Persia? Baul is about neo tantric sex and smoking ganja?

Baul has become just one big regular party, the few real authentic Bauls are not to be seen or will not share anything.

It is not easy to be a Baul, it takes at least 12 years 24/7 under a guru. Not too long ago there used to be 22 Baul ashrams now there are only 2. Bauls do not build temples, raise money for temples, or collect devotee's as in orthodox religions.

Babu's family has been singing to help out so many groups, and temples ect.. helping fund raise money for their causes, giving free performances for years and years.

Now the Bauls need help, I pray these groups will also come to the assistance of the Bauls through the Ektara Foundation. We are now fund raising to preserve this lineage, through the Ektara Foundation and the Bhava project (Baul Historical Ashram and Vedic Academy).

The real authentic Bauls are in deep danger of extinction. The poor Baul children need education, food, medicine and we want to pass on this tradition properly to them so at least they can preserve and have right livelyhood. This is our seva, more information to come, please stay tuned. We are in the beginning phases of setting this up, it will under Babukishan's name with a board of directors.

Babukishan under the name Krishnendu Das is the author of 3 books on Baul printed in the 1980's to be republished and expanded soon. George Harrison and Ravi Shankar helped him publish his last book in 1986, all to be republished soon.

Babu was raised in the village by his grandparents"Baul Saint Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul and Brajobala Dasi." Babu lived a lucid life in the highest of spiritual energy, and was initiated by most of the Saints, Sadhu's, Siddha's, Guru's, Yogi's, Tantrics, Nath's, Avadhuta's, that lived during the 60's, & 70's,80's, 90's, most who have left this earth long ago and many who are completely unknown outside of India.

Nabani Das Baul was an accomplished "exalted Tantric Avadhuta Baul Saint" accomplished in the Bhakti Sadhana's of Krishna and and Avadhuta Sadhana's of Shiva and Kali (Tara Ma) he was a famed Baul Guru Poet who millions of people came to see from all over India, he is also one of the Guru's who little has been written about because his nature was to keep private.

Nabani Das Baul inspired everyone from Rabindranath Tagore to "American Poet Allen Ginsberg who claims Nabani as his guru, he inspired common people to the highest intellectuals. Nabani Das Baul was the first and last Guru to teach Baul philosophy at Rabindranath Tagore Vishva Bhartai University in Shantineketan and was Rabindranath's Baul. Tagore gave Nabani Das the name "Khyappa" he was the first Baul to be called this now many are calling themselves this name. Nabani gave Tagore the name Robi (Ravi) Baul.

You can hear all the Bauls singing Nabani's compositions, however, you will not hear them acknowledge his songs, in the 70's new Baul singers arose who were jealous of Purna Das Baul and his fame as millions would come and see him, some even tried to kill him by poisoning him almost to death, this started a movement away from the truths of the lineage, new Bauls were creating new stories and promoting that Baul is about neo tantric sex and creating new lineages that did not exist before?

Babu is a poet, composing an unlimited amount of poetry from standard 1 onward. His poetry was published in all Bengali magazines under his name Krishnendu and pseudo names for years. He was known as a great romantic poet who attracted untold attention at a very early age. He is first Baul to compose Fusion Music, His compostitions made it easier for other Bauls to experiement.

As a composer Babu has worked with all the top Indian musicians, singers, and legendary Indian music guru's. He spent 13 years with RD Burman in Mumbai. Total 30 years in Indian Cinema composing Bollywood music, meeting all of the Bollywood legends, promoting Bollywood singers, again promoting others, and completely forgetting to promote himself. Babu worked behind the scenes and is the most well know person behind the scenes in Bollywood. This is a book in and of itself.

Babu Kishan is a unique intangible masterpiece of Bengali History, he is a rare gem, multi talented and an ocean beyond ocean of knowledge. He is the encyclopedia of Bengali, Bollywood, Indian Philosophy, Indian history with a photographic memory. A yogi who believes one must be in the world and not of the world. Times are changing fast! A Baul is for the world, and has an important message of peace, and unity.

by Trishula Sandra Das, his wife, supporter, and Baul transcriber for over twelve years 24/7 !

Babu Kishan (The Bauls of Bengal) - After clicking, Video appears, top right hand corner of blog.

EKTARA Foundation is a Non profit Organization for the preservation and translation of their songs and practices. This one and only ancient Oral living lineage of The Bauls of Birbhum Bengal under the Direction of Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babukishan. Baul is already preserved and was recorded decades ago. Now we need to translate and protect. How else would the new Bauls be singing the songs if they were not recorded and this has proved a great problem because most new Baul singers do not know the poets and are making up stories, watering down and reducing this lineage so that they may attain fame.

Baul should only be preserved by Lineage Baul, there are many copying what we are doing. All of sudden fake lineages are coming out of the woodwork and they say they are fundraising in the name of Baul. There is only one lineage of Baul, the rest are making up stories, use your discernment.

Babukishan is the only one representing his lineage, not his brothers nor his 84 year old father these days. Please use your discernment when supporting someone who says they are a lineage Baul or preserving Baul and know Baul is already preserved by this the only Lineage of Baul. We started this project back in 2008 and Babu started preserving his dear Baul back in the 1970's.

"BAUL Historical Ashram & Vedic Academy" BHAVA"

(Preserving a traditional authentic Living Baul Lineage of Bengal India)

International Baul Ashram

Most new Baul singers are singing regular Folk Songs, there needs to be a place to education and Baul Sadhana a place for philosophical discourse... They also need a place to perform, to survive in this world, they need education, medical care, and food. They need hope, there is too much poverty, they need a solid ground to stand on in this changing world.

This was Babu's dream years ago but due to difficult family karmas he was not able to complete this now is the time for a Baul ashram in Santinekatan, and one outside of India. This is our Cause, so that the Bauls are given a chance at an authentic education.

BabuKisha has been traveling, preserving, promoting his "only" Lineage Baul for more than 40 Years.

www.babukishan.org Krishnendu Das Baul, aka Babu Kishan, is from an Authentic Oral Living Lineage Vaishnava Baul Lineage. The Lineage Bauls are from Bengal, and are Vaishnava, they always have the name "Das or Dasi" in their name, actually a Das or Dasi Baul is always Vaishnava first. The Bauls, who are Fakir, Aul, or Sai, Dervesh, are "Bauls of Bangladesh", they align themselves with the great poet of Bangladesh," Lalon Fakir, who originates from the 1800's.."whom the Bauls of Bengal also love. Lalon Fakir was born a Hindu, but was taken in by a muslim family. The difference is in that the Lineage Bauls have been around for thousands of years, and although they embrace pearls of Buddhism, and Sufi.Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare || Hare Ram Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare Hare || हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे || हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे||

K D Babukishan's beloved Grandpa Guru Baul Saint Avadhuta Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, the Name Khyappa was given to Nabani Das by Rabindranath Tagore, Nabani was Tagore's Baul Guru and he named Tagore Robi (Ravi) Baul. Nabani Das Khyappa Baul is the first Baul to be called Khyappa Baul, now many are following in his footsteps and calling themselves Khyappa. Tagore also took pictures of Nabani and had a stature made in his honour. He is the first and last Baul to teach at Tagore's university in Shantinekitan... When Tagore is talking about Baul it is Nabani Das he is talking about...Nabani never wanted to be found or known... He was a real sadhaka..Some say Bauls are beggars but this is not true.. they do not have temples nor do they collect devotee's... Bauls are free, free birds, they believe and worship Radha and Krishna in the soul... They worship the soul, the most high, they are God intoxicated, it is wrong when one says they worship only he body..The Body is the temple, the soul is inside the body..The voice is the insturment, music is the way..Baul songs, Baul kirtan, Bhajanas, mantra, bija mantras, Bauls are the original Hare Krishna singers and dancers of West Bengal India..

Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul & his wife Brojabala Dasi, Babu's grandparents & Guru, these are the true lineage of Baul...Das Gosai, they are Brahmin caste, even though Baul is said to not have caste, however, the lineage bauls are brahmin, that is why they speak sanskrit, but they do not show it.. Nabani Das took the Gosai part off of his name because he never wanted anybody would touch his feet..Touch your own feet, bow to the divine within yourself.

"Baul Saint Guru Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul" Wandering exalted Avadhuta Baul - Bauls are poets, philosophers, they spoke sanskrit, this is how they passed along the oral tradition for thousands of years, then singing the songs in Bengali to the people of the villages. They have roots, deep roots in the soil of Indian philosophy from the soil of Bengali. Maybe the new age Baul singers do not have roots but the lineage Bauls have thousands of year of deep roots recorded in their songs.

Legendary Brajabala Dasi My Guru!

Babu Kishan's beloved Grandma (GURU) Brajabala Dasi, JAI GURU!!!! NAMAH NAMAH!!!! Babu says, he is lucky to have been born, to have grown up around the original lineage Vaishnava Bauls and Baul Saints in a very Spiritual atmosphere, this does not exist anymore. There are very few if any authentic Bauls left, they are extinct in the oral tradition and this is the only Lineage of Bauls there is no other, there never was. The women Bauls in my family including my grandmother Brajabala Dasi, my Aunts and my mother Manju Dasi, my Great Aunts Phulorani Dasi ,Radharani Dasi, Chintamoni Dasi, Triguna Dasi, were real sadhika's, similar to Mira Bai Sadhana, it is not easy, they are very rare, and the last Baulini's, they do not exist today." .... Rabindranath Tagore said, Nabani Das Baul is the last real Baul."Tagore said Nabani was a "Baul Saint." This Golden time is gone, now all we can do is follow them. There is no such thing as a legendary Baul today.. Even my mother Manju Dasi was a legendary as she traveled the world for 50 years..Today people try to be real but it they can not even compare to the lives of these women and who they were, all we can do is try to follow them. Their stories will be told these amazing women Bauls, Gosai Dasi Baulinin Women..

Birbhum West Bengal the soil of Mystic Baul Lineage

Babukishan in Haridwar India

Babukishan at the Vedanta Society in Los Angeles, he was a Vedic Monk Ramakrishna Order for12years

Vedic Monk for 12 years in Kolkata, BA Indian Philosophy, MA Indian Music Kolkata University.

A typical Baul village in Birbhum West Bengal

Bauls of West Bengal

Babu's Baul Logo

Tribal women from Bengal

Radhabinode Temple in Kenduli Birbhum the Bauls have a mela here called the Jayadev Mela.

The Bauls hold the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva in high esteem whether he is form Orissa or not.

Babukishan produced CD in honor of Sai Baba.

The last book Babu published in 1986

Laxshman Das Baul

Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul making Ektara's

Bauls at the Big Pink in Woodstock 1967, the photo is Nabani Das Baul

Sri Chaitanya and Sri Nityananda who was a Baul

Baul of Bengal Stamp

Nabani Das Khyeppa Baul

Manju Das, Purna Das and Babu @ UCLA 80's

Babukishan Laguna Beach California 2008

The Mystic Bhakti of a Living Master.

Babukishan in Rishikes @ Sitaram Omkarnathji's ashram 2007.

Bengal Baul music with Purna Das Baul and others.

Purna Das Baul, Manju Dasi, Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babukishan

Sri SitaRam Das Omkar Naths Ashram in Rishikesh

Krishna lives in the heart of the Baul, they worship Krishna in a inner natural way. There love of Krishna is a God intoxicated Love, they are the original Hare Krishna Maha Mantra singers, and dancers, the original Das, & Dasi, of West Bengal. They are Rasa Lila Mystics. Monar Manush, soul mates..

Babu with his Khol in Hyde Park before concert at Royal Albert Hall

Babu Kishan @ The Roundhouse 2009 Vancouver

Nabani Das Khyappa Baul phot by Rabindranath Tagore.

SitaRam Das Omkar Nath ashram outside of Rishikesh

Babu with George Harrison who published Babu's book.. The Bauls of Bengal 1985

Krishna turns himself into Kali because Radha's husband is wondering where she is going, he see's her as worshipping kali for the family.. If Kali is Ok for Krishna to turn himself into, and for Radha to worship she is good enough for everybody.. The Bauls worship Kali also.

Babu's tradition Baul album called Gypsy Indian

Bauls do not like male power trippers, rules & regulations, but that does not mean they do not know the rules of the universe. They understand ayurveda, the science of life, the science of life, the principles of yoga, and all things Indian, they are not Pedantic.

Babu's book published under his name Krishnendu Das , Babu has been preserving his lineage for 40 years now, if it were not for Babu, nobody would know about the Bauls of Bengal..

Sri Nityananada .. was a Baul, if you notice he always has hair, there are songs in the oral tradition that verify this.. He is from Babu's lineage of the original Hare Krishna singers and dancers, he met Sri Chaitanya first and was his best friend, he gave the Maha mantra to Chaitanya and taught him how to chant and dance... this has been the Baul way for thousands of years...it was a part of Nityananda's life from birth. History has been distorted, and stories retold because of ambitious new age Vaishnava reformers, Jai Nitai... Nityananada was a Baul.

Beloved Sai Baba, he was very similar to Baul in that he embraced everyone. Babu feels his grandfather in Sai Baba

Baul fusion, Mystic Sacred Song, Soul Mat by Universal

Babu in Rishikesh 2007 at the SitaRam Das Omkarnath Ashram

Babu at Pous Mela.. Pous Mela in Shantinekatan was created by Rabindranath Tagore in honor of Babu's grandfather Sri Nabani Das Baul. People come from all over the world to attend this Mela.

Tara Ma Tarapith Ma, Shyama Ma,

Kolkata, West Bengal

In the villiage where Babu is from they had a huge Ratha Yatra cart, they worshiped Jaganatha, next to the Jaganatha temple was a Kali temple.. they embraced both.. Baul loves all.

Dakinishwar Temple outside of Kolkata, West Bengal.

Vaishnava Bauls have worshiped Radha/Krishna for 5000 years since the beginning of the story, this particular lineage is the lineage of the Great Baul Avadhuta Saint, Sri Nityananada Mahaprabu Baul, the untold story, Nityananda was a Baul, the history of this is recorded in the songs of the Baul oral living lineage, Jai Nitai, this lineage is the original lineage of Das, and Dasi..

Babu with the Khol, his mother Manju Das, father, 2 brothers, many years ago.

Babu Kishan's Guru, Baul Saint, Avadhuta Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, photo taken by Rabindranath Tagore who was a very close associate of Nabani, he created the Pous Mela in honor of Nabani Das, and there is a bridge there he also named in honor of him, called Nabani Setu. Rabindranath gave Nabani the name Khyappa Baul, Nabani influenced alot or Rabindranath's poetry, Nabani gave him the name Ravi Baul..

2007 Ali Akbar's birthday party, Babu and Zakir Hussain, Babu has know him and his brothers since he was a kid..

Nick Jagger of the Rolling Stones beside Babu's father Purna Das Baul, and little Babu in 1971, he would have been about 9 years old.. They were staying at Mick's place in Nice France recording an album. Babu's father did not really know who Mick Jagger was, he was just a distracting dancing man to him, they were guests of Mick Jagger's, and had come by arrangement of Mick Jaggers manager, after the fundraising concert for Bangladesh that was held in London. When they came a limousine picked them up, the driver was Mick Jagger.

Sri SitaRam Das Omkar Nath, whom Babu loved. He was intitiated by him, and still wear the Ram Shawl given to him by Sita Ram Das Omkarnath, Babu always say what a beautiful smile he had, and that he spent 30 years in caves, he was a Saint..

Babu, and George Harrison 1985, George along with Ravi Shankar assisted Babu in the republishing of Babu's book, The Bauls of Bengal

Babu, Sufi Books New York 2004

Ekchakra West Bengal.. the Birthplace of Babu's ancestor and Vaishnava Baul of Bengal 500 years ago, Sri Nityananda Mahaprabhu Baul, not only that his Aunt Radharani Dasi Baul married the Ekchakra Temples Pujari's son.. Gopal Das Baul the first Baul to incorporate the Dotara into Baul

Bhakti Fest 2010, Joshua Tree California

Sri Saraswati, from Durga Puja Pandal in Powai Mumbai Durga Puja 2008

Rare photo of Kali Ma taken by Babu Kishan can also be viewed on www.trishuladas.com

Babukishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul in Rishikesh

Babukshan in Vancouer

Babu Kishan's guru Nabani Das Baul

A Baul singer with Ektara

Ananda Lahari

The temple wall of the Radhabinode Temple, where Jayadeva wrote the Gita Govinda

Jayadeva was born in Orissa but wrote the Gita Govinda here. The Bauls being poets hold Jayadeva in high esteem.

Durga Puja Calgary Canada

Lineage Baul friend Kali Dasgupta

SD Burman loved Nabani Das Baul's music

Lineage Baul Nabani Das Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babukishan,

Lineage Bauls instruments from Babu's family.

The Bauls of Bengal Album recorded in 1967 in America

Bauls of Bengal, Young Purna Das and Laxshman Das Baul

Mirror of the Sky... Babu and George Harrison who helped produce Babu's book Bauls of Bengal 1985

Babukishan @ Sitaramdas Omkarnath Thakurs ashram in Rishikesh 2007

Ecsatic Baul

Bob Dylan's album, John Westly Harding, Babu Kishans, father on the right..and his Uncle Laxshman Das Baul on Left.. and of course Bob Dylan in the middle..

For thousands of years the Bauls instrument of Peace is the Ektara or Gopi Chand, and the Kamak or Ananda Lahari, (Mystic Drum)

Babu at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York with David Amram Master NY music conductor, and New York's top musicians

Lineage Baul's roots are DEEP, in the soil of Bengal, their roots are DEEP reaching to heaven, pulling heaven to earth..Radha and Krishna are enshrined in the alter of their heart, that is why they do not have temples.... the deities are installed in their heart..in their soul.. They believe in soul.

Baul in Newport Beach California

Babukishan with his Baba and Ma!

Sri Sitaram Omkarnath's ashram 2007 Rishikesh

Babu and Sultan Khan one of the best Sarangi players, performing together at the Royal Albert Hall 80's sitting together in the Royal Albert Hall green room.

Some Albums by Babukishan

Press in Mumbai re: Babukishan

Babu with the Baul insturment of Peace.. Ektara.. San Diego 2003

Ektara, the Vaishnava Baul symbol for peace.

Babu and the great Master, Ali Akbar Khan whom Babu has knew since childhood.

Ravi Shankar and Babu, he is a family friend, Babu has known him since his childhood.

Mirror of the sky produced by Babukishan, the name, " MIRROR OF THE SKY" is a name Rabindranath Tagore gave Babu's grandfather, Sri Nabani Das Khyappa Baul, he also gave him the name Khyappa, before this no Baul was ever called Khyappa Baul, now today we see everybody calling themselves Kyappa Baul.

Babu and Trishula in Vrindavan India 2007

The roots of Baul are deep, and also include wisdom from Buddhism..They accept all roots coming out of India. The Vaishnava Baul's have the deepest roots compared to any other branches of Baul..

Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babukishan in the 80's Energetic fire..

RabindraNath Tagore who was closely associated with Babu's grandfather Nabani Das Baul, Nabani gave Rabindranath the name Robi (Ravi Baul)

Al Aronowitz, the Blacklisted Journalist who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beattles. RIP 2005. Father of Rock and Roll Journalism, Rolling Stones, Washington Post, New York Times Village Voice..

2008 article from the Times of India

Babu's long association with the Rolling Stones, here in Mumbai, he first met Mick Jagger in 1971 at Mick's estate in Nice France.

Babu and long time friend Sally Grossman who started the Baul Archive, the interviews are mostly with Baul singers, not much lineage Baul there.. The man in the background is the legendary Albert B Grossman, who was Sally's husband and Manager to Bob Dylan

Babukishan and long time old friend Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones

American Poet Allen Ginsberg in New York, Allen met Babu's grandfather back in the early 60's, Nabani Das Baul was Allen's Guru..

Radha lives in the heart of the Baul, she is seen as supreme because she has pulling power, without Radha there is no krishna!

The great God intoxicated Saint, devotee of Kali Ma, Ramakrishna, and his devotee the Great India Swami Vikekananda, who started the Vedanta Society.. Babu spent 12 years here as a Vedic monk in Kolkata.

Babu has written lyric for and composed music for, producing over 44 albums. This one in honor of Kali ma